X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4534FB0A.8060705@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:47:22 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Known problems with rsync 2.6.6? (Solved) References: <1521.71.227.93.176.1161014668.squirrel@xaox.net> <3536.131.167.68.65.1161052699.squirrel@xaox.net> <453451EC.1030000@cygwin.com> <1437.131.167.68.65.1161058198.squirrel@xaox.net> <45345782.3070105@cygwin.com> <1288.71.227.93.176.1161092723.squirrel@xaox.net> In-Reply-To: <1288.71.227.93.176.1161092723.squirrel@xaox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Andy Pitonyak wrote: >>> In my case, the problem prevents an rsync on drives local to the >>> machine. > >> Perhaps using ssh is still an option? > > That had not occurred to me to try. Treat the local drive as a remote > drive and use ssh... I know how to do that in Linux, but not in cygwin.... > I suppose that I simply need to start a daemon to listen for ssh > connections. Install "Openssh", run ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config. Try to ssh to 'localhost'. If that works, port 22 is likely available and you should be able to rsync over ssh! :-) If not, you may be out of luck while running your VPN client. :-( -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/